Ciderpunk

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[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not quite. It’s largely because a manager decided that an important metric for Google to be better at was “how much time users spend on the results page” which turns out you can game by just making the results worse so users have to stay there longer. Management made a decision to focus on metrics that are counter to what users would actually want because… well, here’s a better article that explains it:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And only 2 of them ever voted. Literally more likely to have ballots lost in the mail than to have people who aren’t supposed to vote sneak through.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 83 points 3 weeks ago

Bold of you to assume Trump knows how to write and the letter was at all legible.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Per the article, the exploit was fixed back in July. Weird to continue to use present tense to describe an exploit that doesn’t exist anymore.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Yeah, but if the media accurately depicted Trump as a deeply unserious candidate with absolutely no idea how to run anything, you might stop watching the news to see who is ahead, and don’t their ability to sell ads via a horse race narrative matter more than your silly country and life?

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Really burying the lede that most of these people were already out of prison and Biden was just wiping their records since they’d been good after leaving prison.

But that’s not as fun as JOE BIDEN PERSONALLY SENT MURDEROUS DRUG DEALERS TO YOUR GRANDMAS HOUSE.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

This won’t make a significant difference in the race. Anyone who was going to vote for Sheehy will read this as “saying what they all know to be true” and anyone who wasn’t going to vote for him will continue to not do so.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (48 children)

The Montana Republican Party paid for the Greens to gather signatures in 2020 to help them try to spoil Dem votes, so this is nothing new for Montana. The republicans there are known for funding spoiler candidates and those candidates are just happy to be getting money at all.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Luckily for anyone who isn’t interested it’s opt-in. Don’t want it? Don’t use it.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes I’m sure the 7-11 cashier would love for me to try this.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I said generally. Your parents who get paid in local currency for their job are not trading in foreign currencies. The fact that rich people can find ways to squeeze more money out of just about anything isn’t a win for cryptocurrencies.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (9 children)

People generally don’t trade currencies as commodities or treat them as investments. When the same people promising crypto is totally a currency actually start treating it like a stable currency to exchange for goods and services and not an investment or commodity to be traded, I might revisit it. For now, the evangelists refuse to walk the walk.

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